w2

Week 2

Day 1

Question of the day: How would you write a program to make correct change (as in a cashier giving you coins, not changing the world)?

• Writing tests with pytest
• Exceptions

Exercise

Pig Latin

Assignment

Currency converter

ERRATA:

• rates is a list of tuples, not a dictionary.
• from is a reserved word, so use original or _from for the parameter indicating the currency to change from.

References

• pytest
• Getting started with testing in Python
• Debugging with pdb

Day 2

Question of the day: How would you write a program to find all the anagrams of a phrase?

• Creating classes and objects

Exercise

Cipher

Homework

Object-oriented money

Day 3

Question of the day: What classes would you need to make a blackjack game? How would you calculate the score for a hand?

Goals

• Object-oriented design

Homework

Pig

Day 4

Question of the day: How would you write a program to recommend items someone might like to buy, given their purchase history, like on Amazon?

Goals

• Pipenv and third-party libraries
• Reading and parsing data

Homework

Pathfinder

References

• Pipenv
• Direnv
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python